: 4 years old violently shaking head when sleeping I'm a proud parent of a wonderful 4 years old boy. He's healthy, smart and kind. Nonetheless, my wife and I have been struggling with a sleeping disorder since his first year.

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4 years old violently shaking head when sleeping
I'm a proud parent of a wonderful 4 years old boy. He's healthy, smart and kind.

Nonetheless, my wife and I have been struggling with a sleeping disorder since his first year. When falling asleep (or sometimes when in deep sleep), he violently shakes his head sideways, "singing" loudly something like "aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaa". Sounds funny, but believe me when he does this for hours at night, it quickly becomes unbearable. Beyond that, we fear that someday he might hurt his neck doing this...

We tried dozens of methods to make him stop, none worked: more hugs, more bed-time stories, homeopathic medication, music (I selected a few classical songs for him, but he doesn't like music when trying to sleep)... We took him to a kid psychologist, all she said to us was that it's a way for him to chill out/revive his day and that there was nothing to do but cope with it...

It seems that he does this unconsciously, because when we wake him up to stop him, he almost never understands what's happening.

We are quite in despair with this situation, I must admit. The last palliative we found is sleeping with earplugs...

Did some of you have similar issues and found a solution?

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